Cisco Intersight Device Connector offers the ability to onboard and manage your Cisco Nexus and MDS switches directly from Cisco Intersight’s interface: Intersight Device Connector feature Cisco introduced this new software feature, respectively from Cisco MDS 9.3(2) and Cisco Nexus 10.2(3)F releases, as explained in the release notes: Note that this new Intersight feature (also…
Recently, I had a problem with vCenter web access using DNS alias or short name with the following error message: “[400] An error occurred while sending an authentication request to the vCenter Single Sign-On server- An error occurred when processing meta data during vCenter Single Sign-On setup:the service provider validation failed. Verify that the server URL is…
AVS (Azure VMware Solution) backup with Dell DDVE Cloud Tier gives you the option to backup your virtual machines to an Azure Blob cloud storage destination. You can deploy Dell DDVE (Data Domain Virtual Edition) in 2 ways: (Dell PowerProtect DDVE includes the backup & management software whereas DDVE alone must be integrated with third-party…
VMware HCX Network Extension High Availability (HCX-NE-HA) is a feature released since HCX 4.3. However, you can only enable it if you have a HCX Enterprise license. HCX-NE high availability is achieved by deploying a second HCX-NE appliance (standby) at each site paired with an active one. The four HCX-NE appliances (1 active & 1…
Recently, I had to run binding VMware ESXi NFS traffic to a custom vSphere TCP/IP stack for migration purposes. In my case, the NFS server and the ESXi vmkernel port used for NFS traffic do not belong to the same VLAN. Therefore, I have to use Layer 3 communication for NFS connectivity. The first step…
